They say the French count has done most honourable service.

"What French count would want to kiss them now?"

She was the daughter of a French count.

He speaks many European languages and claims he's a French count.

She was his wife, of all things, and now she had found her French count again and planned to marry him.

A French count added tone to the social qualifications of the Nepenthe.

All three daughters lived in France and married French Counts.

The wealthy French count brought Buffet with him to Paris to show off to his friends.

He came back softly, holding his pork pie under his arm, debonair as a French count in a college play.

But in all the world there are, by official French count, only 105 million "genuine" francophones - people who use French every day.